ON THE ISLAND!

Got to Hamilton island yesterday morning and am staying here, just hanging out, until I start working on monday!
The island is awesome so far, I'm really lookign forward to starting work most of all though, I don't plan on going out drinking very much, but would like to do my rescue diving PADI course during these upcoming months. That will look very good on a uni application, I'm sure... as will a few months of working at a luxury resort island I guess...

Speaking of applications, mom and dad, can you figure out application deadlines for ASU and some other ones on the list I gave you? I like putting dates and schedules on my iPod so I can organize myself. It's been working really well so far and I havn't even been taking my concerta yet. I will when I start work though, I dont want to drift.

ANYWAY, on the island, we have parrots, cockatiels, mssive black birds, gulls and most commonly seen are the butterflies, you can look up from the pools and just see tons of butterflies around, its cool. There are also Opossums or Possums or whatever the real name is, iguanas and spiders. big spiders. spiders so big they should have small gnomes riding them around.

Met a couple of people last night who were very cool to hang out with but I have been told that there are a bunch of people being introduced to the island like me on monday when the jobs start.

I have been told that there is a lot of money to be made in the next month because there is a race week starting and with the race comes a lot of customers. Hopefully I will be doing a lot of overtime work to keep myself occupied and making mucho mucho monies. And after the first month, I can start doing something called multi-employed or something where I can do another part time job in my free time if I want, to develop peripheral skills as well as make some extra money.

They have wakeboarding and other watersports on the island but it is expensive so I dont know if I'll be doing it very often if at all. Maybe I can do my multi-employed work at the watersports hut doing teaching or driving the boat. OH YEAH! I plan to do my boat and jetski licence here too. So Dad, you can expect me to be able to drive Sugar around by the time I make my return, if you havnt sold it off and bought yourself a pickup escalade.

I also just set up a bank account, dont worry Mom, I read through all of the text that there was to read on the pamphlet before signing, it's a simple transaction debit card which I will be getting my salary put onto. I'll be getting my online banking stuff sorted as well so you can transfer the money I have left onto that one and the HSBC card can just be my backup card like it was supposed to be.

I will be working for 17.60 Aus Dollars per hour, with a minimum of about 36 hours a week, minus 90 dollars a week for accomodation which includes, toilets, fridge, kitchen, water, heating and AirConditioning. And a roof. I did the math and although I didn't do super well in my math exams, I am pretty sure that I can leave the island in 4 months having made around 9500 Australian Dollars, taking into account the cost of food and accomodation but excluding the cost of dive courses and extra activities like golf on the GOLF ISLAND!!! thats right homies, theres an 18 hole golf course which covers a whole island with mountains and stuff... well good... And there's a shooting range and a gokart track, fishing, minigolf and other stuff.

Anyway, I'm sorry I havnt been putting up pictures but I will think about adding some more sometime soon if I can.

Peace out, A-Bomb.

JOB!

Okay guys, I got a job a few days ago working at a carnival and it was just totally braindead work, standing around blowing bubbles and selling little robot puppies from hell.

BIG IMPROVEMENT!
I just got off the phone with a recruitment agent from Hamilton Island in the Whitsunday Islands and made a really good impression as well as setting up a phone interview which, if all goes well, will send me skyrocketing into a job at an italian restaurant next week on the 4th of August.

The guy said I am very popular on the island at the moment and he has had a bunch of requests for me to work at some of the places there.

I would like to thank my wonderful father Aric Ryan Ault for taking me out on a bar crawl in Dubai before I left as it was on this crawl that I met the person who has been passing my CV around Hamilton Island and been putting a good word around for me.

I would also like to thank all my supporters such as my uncle Mark and aunt Amy who very thoughtfully sent me a fake reference, my mom Pia Charlotte Ault who was rooting for me, Hunter who was doing pretty much nothing but who I had a great conversation with recently, and finally, my best friend and girlfriend Courtney Parr who is madly smitten by my wiley charm.

Peace out yo.

WASHED!!!

Mommy, I'm sure this will make you proud.

I did my first ever load of laundry today and I dont think I shrunk anything!

here's what I did...

First, I dirtied all th clothes until I had nothing clean to wear. This took about a month or so, many items of clothing were worn until stinky.

next, i dropped everything into a pillowcase... get this... I did it to keep it separated from the clean stuff!!! it works, I promise!

then I took the bag downstairs, put 3$ in the washer, threw the clothes in, switched the machine to small load, colors, threw a cup of detergent in with the clothes.

The result: lint covered, yet delightfully fresh clothes to hang on the clothes line!!!

One of the proudest moments of my life.

AND!!! I got a mail from the lady at Hamilton Island and she said she had given my phone number to a guy she knows who works at a pizza place on the island and he should be calling me within the next couple of days!!!!!

such a good day. I did a nice clothes washer/dryer design as well, its like a timeglass shape.

sorry, that reminds me that I need to put up pictures!

later today, I promise!!!!

much love from A-Bomb...

applied for internships at some industrial design studios in australia. if I can get one, I may find myself travelling the east coast quite quickly towards Sydney. But I dont think I'll get one that soon, if at all. but hot damn it would sure be nice!

I did some great designs yesterday, i'll put up a load of pictures of the current portfolio from my trip in a day. maybe later today. who knows, maybe I built a time machine and I already showed you them and you just dont remember. or not.

The hostel

So I'm still at Asylum Hostel in Cairns, I have distributed about 40 CV's around town in the last few days, been back to the places I like to check again if they have availabilities yet, and I plan to go back tomorrow again to those places to check AGAIN! I'm giving them 1 week to reply, maybe a week and a half. If I havn't got anything by then, I plan to travel south a bit, towards the colder weather where there're fewer people to compete with.

There are a bunch of people here who haven't heard back from employers for a month and a half and are still waiting, drinking box wine and bumming around every night. I do not, under any circumstances, plan to become such a person.

I'm still living on my pasta/noodle/toast diet and I think I'll last quite a while before I have to go shopping again. 40 dollars for 2 weeks of food seems like a pretty good way to save my cash from now on. of course, I don't know if other places along the coast have the same cheap stuff as here, or if the hostels will be as nice and cheap as here. its 18 bucks a night here with breakfast included, a pool which I dont use, clean and spacious toilets and showers, a comfy bed in a 3 person room, good atmosphere, great weather, books on the bookshelf, free internet and free bbq on thursdays.

I'm writing a book about zombies in Dubai and I think it's going to be a hit when I decide to finish it and publish it... I probably won't...

but I have been doing designs and counted today and I have a total of 35, which means that I have more than one for every day I have been away, at this rate, I'll have around 200 by the time I return! Plus the ones that I have at home in my other design book! So I think I'll do alright.

See y'all later xxx

Cairns

So I made it to Cairns a few days ago and I have been on a solid job hunt every day looking for a full-time placement. I have applied all over the place and there are a few places that seemed eager for me to get the work, however that doesn't mean that I'll get anything from them. I remain optimistic and have done some great designs on this trip, still not fully over my dry patch of drawing, but I'm managing to come up with some good stuff.
Here're some pictures of recent.

Hey guys, sorry it's been a while since my last post. I've been adapting to australia. Sydney is where I'm at right now, but tomorrow night I'm going to Cairns, all the way up north.

Today I went surfing on Manly Beach, the place where surfing started in Oz. I got up first try on a wave that the guy said should be ridden by people with some more experience, I was like what you talking bout man, and rode another 4 or 5 of them. only for a bout 10 yards or so each time, but I thought it was a pretty nice start and I liked it and hope to do more of it on my trip. Sucks for Dad because he always wants to compete with me in snowboarding and wakeboarding and wakesurfing but its just a shame that theres no waves in Dubai so I guess he wont be going out and buying himself a multi-gazillion dollar board to show me up in. He may though. just to give himself peace of mind.

Tomorrow I'm planning on visiting a gallery or something to soak up some artsy culture blah blah.

Talk to you later homes

Thailand I love you, but you're bringing me down.

Having a blast in Tao!
I've still not done much other than snorkeling, eating, drawing, writing, reading and sleeping but I've had a really good time and I'm ready for the transition to civilized spaces in Australia. Already got my ferry ticket for tomorrow morning, then I'm going to have to bum around the airport or town center for a while until I have to fly out to bangkok.

The internet cafe is playing "Love Story" by Taylor swift <3 OMG LOVE HER!!!!!
nah just kidding

Grandpa, I'm glad to hear you've been following what I've been doing. Gotta say, I havnt been doing much, but it's been great!

To everyone else, have a good one

Yo homes!

Sorry for lack of updates, I havn't been doing much but snorkelling and chilling in the bungalow. I cant wait to head off to Oz for work, Im flying to sydney on the 5th, landing on the 6th, then chilling there for 13 days until flying off to Cairns in the north. Then I start my descent, trying to find work anywhere. But there is one bright shiny light, I think I'll be able to get work on Hamilton island for quite a while, then chill out a while before I go to New Zealand. As I said, I can't wait. I will be sending a package home to dubai some day when I get to Sydney, in that package there will be goodies for everyone back home.

Hope everyone is having a great summer holiday!

much love, Aidan